Field experiments on sheet wasll regularities in fOrest-steppe landscapes of the Volga drainage basin (with special reference to Ulyanovsk region)

Abstract

Quantitative data are analysed which the author obtained during stationary field observation of sheet wash at Ulyanovsk region. The data reveal complicated and ambiguous character of slope wash, the loose material moves downslope wavelike, the rate depends on climate and slope characteristics (orientation, morphology, grass cover development). Man-induced components of the sheet wash are roughly estimated.